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Message-ID: <1427540660.2334.14.camel@x220>
Date:	Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:04:20 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@...il.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Jochen Eisinger <jochen@...guin-breeder.org>,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver
 without /proc/i8k

On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 11:24 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> @@ -1703,6 +1703,17 @@ config SENSORS_ULTRA45
>  	  This driver provides support for the Ultra45 workstation environmental
>  	  sensors.
>  
> +config SENSORS_DELL_SMM
> +	tristate "Dell laptop SMM BIOS hwmon driver"
> +	depends ON X86

How did this past your testing?

> +	---help---
> +	  This hwmon driver adds support for reporting temperature of different
> +	  sensors and controls the fans on Dell laptops via System Management
> +	  Mode provided by Dell BIOS.
> +
> +	  When option I8K is also enabled this driver provides legacy /proc/i8k
> +	  userspace interface for i8kutils package.
> + 


Paul Bolle

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